Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Saucer, ca. 1800

  Straight with flaring edge. Overglaze decoration: band of blue and yellow, divided by scrolled undulating lines. Gold lines.

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  Saucer, 1790

  Curved shape, reeding on the outside. Decoration of underglaze blue “strohblumen” pattern.

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  Saucer, ca. 1790

  Curved, with “strohblumen” pattern in underglaze blue.

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  Saucer (France), mid-18th century

  Saucer of pinkish buff clay with grayish glaze. Polychrome painting of bird with long tail on blossoming tree branch flowers and pagoda. On edge, yellow and brown lines, the innermost…

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  Saucer (China)

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  Wrapper (Nigeria), early 20th century

  Woman’s wrapper with a large-scale design of two columns of squares, each criss-crossed by diagonal lines. Field of small white circles. In white on a deep blue ground.

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  Textile (Nigeria), early 20th century

  Long strip of woven cotton with a simple woven windowpane check; a wide stripe down the center is edged with light blue and has two parallel lines of white ikat.

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  Textile (Nigeria), ca. 1950

  Central medallion shows a man and a crowned woman with lettering above their heads reading OKASA AKA UNI. The medallion is derived from one designed to commemorate the Silver Jubilee…

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  Fragment (Nigeria), mid-20th century

  Reversible square fragment of dark red, with a center band of blue, yellow and white weft floats which form a geometric pattern.

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  Fragment (Nigeria), 1961

  Narrow-woven light-brown cotton with light-blue stripes, embroidered in a highly abstract pattern in gold-colored rayon thread.